"Forever""; or simply evil, like Professor Moriarty, archenemy of British detective Sherlock Holmes. The modern animated series ""Futurama"" has Professor Hubert Farnsworth, a typical absent-minded but genius-level professor. A related stereotype is the mad scientist. Vladimir Nabokov, author and professor of English at Cornell, frequently used professors as the protagonists in his novels. Professor Henry Higgins is a main character in George Bernard Shaw's play ""Pygmalion"". In the ""Harry Potter"" series, set at the wizard school Hogwarts, the teachers are known as professors, many of whom play important roles, notably Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape. In the board game ""Cluedo"","
"Pygmalion (play) Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called ""Pygmalion and Galatea"" that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, ""Galatea, or Pygmalion"
"pernicious anemia; he left no children. In ""Who's Who, 1911"", Sweet gave his recreations as: Sweet has retained a reputation as ""the man who taught Europe phonetics"". His work established an applied linguistics tradition in language teaching which has continued without interruption to the present day. A bibliography and ""Collected Papers"" were published by H. C. Wyld. In the preface to his play ""Pygmalion"", George Bernard Shaw, after describing Sweet, stated that ""[Henry] Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet, to whom the adventure of Eliza Doolittle would have been impossible; still, as will be seen, there are touches of"
"gifted in music and elocution. As did his younger brother, David became a professor of elocution, providing lectures on proper speech. David Charles, Professor of English Literature and Elocution, had previously taught at Ireland's Dublin University, where one of his students was playwright George Bernard Shaw, whom he later introduced to Melville. Shaw, under Melville's influence was inspired to write the play ""Pygmalion"" (which spawned the musical production and movie ""My Fair Lady"" and refers directly to ""Bell's Visible Speech""), and also became a life-long advocate of phonetic transcription —leaving a large part of his estate to the development of"
"Eliza Doolittle Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character from London who appears in the play ""Pygmalion"" (George Bernard Shaw, 1912) and the musical version of that play, ""My Fair Lady"". Eliza is a Cockney flower girl, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden. Higgins goes along with it for the purposes of a wager: That he can turn her into the toast of elite London society. Her Cockney dialect includes words that are common among working class Londoners, such as ain't; ""I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking to the"
"guru. The character names are a reference to Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, the main characters of the 1912 George Bernard Shaw play ""Pygmalion"", further popularized by the 1956 musical ""My Fair Lady"". In the play and musical, Henry is tasked with improving Eliza's social status, and ends up falling in love with his own creation. The Shaw play is in turn inspired by the story of Pygmalion in Greek mythology, who was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had created. The series featured modern day music and modern day social problems. The series will premiere"
"gentleman"" said Doolittle. Doolittle receives voice coaching and learns the rules of etiquette. The outcome of these attentions varies between the original play and the various adaptations (see ""Pygmalion"" article). The part of Eliza was originally played by Mrs Patrick Campbell, at that time the most famous actress on London's West End stage. Shaw had written the role for her, and although many considered her too old for the role she triumphed. The unprecedented use of the word ""bloody"" - as a scripted intensive - caused a sensation when Campbell delivered it. For the 1938 film ""Pygmalion"", George Bernard Shaw"
"George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ""Man and Superman"" (1902), ""Pygmalion"" (1912)"" and Saint Joan"" (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw"
"Jim! One evening the king will say: 'Oh, Liza, old thing, I want all of England your praises to sing. Next week on the twentieth of May I proclaim ‘Liza Doolittle Day!' </poem> Fans of ""My Fair Lady"" have ever after been fond of making an informal observance of Eliza Doolittle Day each May 20. Eliza Doolittle Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character from London who appears in the play ""Pygmalion"" (George Bernard Shaw, 1912) and the musical version of that play, ""My Fair Lady"". Eliza is a Cockney flower girl, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution"
"in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen, 37-year-old product of the stormy union of a female Inuit hunter and a rich urban Danish physician, is a loner who struggles to live with her fractured heritage. Living alone in a dreary apartment complex in Christianshavn, Copenhagen, she befriends Isaiah, the neglected son of her alcoholic neighbour, because he too is Greenlandic and not truly at home in Denmark. Smilla's friendship with Isaiah, recounted in the novel in flashback, gives some meaning to her otherwise lonely life. Isaiah’s sudden death is explained officially as a fall from the roof whilst"
"Wilhelm Meyer Lutz. George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"" (1912, staged 1914) owes something to both the Greek Pygmalion and the legend of ""King Cophetua and the beggar maid""; in which a king lacks interest in women, but one day falls in love with a young beggar-girl, later educating her to be his queen. Shaw's comedy of manners in turn was the basis for the Broadway musical ""My Fair Lady"" (1956), as well as numerous other adaptations. P. L. Deshpande's play ""Ti Fulrani"" (""Queen of Flowers"") is also based on Shaw's ""Pygmalion"". The play was a huge success in Marathi theater and"
"My Fair Lady My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"", with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady. The original Broadway and London shows starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success. It set a record for the longest run of any show on Broadway up to that time. It was followed by"
"began writing as a play for children, became a study of the nature of religion and how to put Christian precepts into practice. ""Pygmalion"" (1912) is a Shavian study of language and speech and their importance in society and in personal relationships. To correct the impression left by the original performers that the play portrayed a romantic relationship between the two main characters Shaw rewrote the ending to make it clear that the heroine will marry another, minor character. Shaw's only full-length play from the war years is ""Heartbreak House"" (1917), which in his words depicts ""cultured, leisured Europe before"
"century as many dialect researchers said that their results were similar to that found in Ellis's work. Some have argued that much of Ellis's information was appropriated without sufficient citation by his critic Joseph Wright. He was acknowledged by George Bernard Shaw as the prototype of Professor Henry Higgins of ""Pygmalion"" (adapted as the musical ""My Fair Lady""). He was elected in June 1864 as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Ellis's son Tristram James Ellis trained as an engineer, but later became a noted painter of the Middle East. Ellis developed two phonetic alphabets, ""phonotype"", which used many new"
"Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"". Against her father a Rate Mahatthaya's wishes, Meedeniya entered the University of Ceylon in 1947 with the support of her cousins. He died in her first year away at a time when Marxist ideas were the norm. She immersed herself in the Ceylon theater scene while there under the guidance of Professor E. F. C. Ludowyk; she also became a proficient dancer with lessons from Chitrasena. She eventually graduated with an Arts degree and travelled to London with letters of recommendation from Ludowyk following a marriage to Professor Dissanayake (they divorced some time later). There with the"
"My Fair Lady.jpg|thumb|Cinematographer Harry Stradling poses with [[Audrey Hepburn]] as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the 1964 movie musical ""My Fair Lady.""]] [[Category:1913 books]] [[Category:1913 plays]] [[Category:West End plays]] [[Category:Plays by George Bernard Shaw]] [[Category:Works originally published in Everybody's Magazine]] [[Category:Literature first published in serial form]] [[Category:Plays set in London]] [[Category:British plays adapted into films]] Pygmalion (play) Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to"
"Shaw had written especially for the 1938 film version of ""Pygmalion"", including the Embassy Ball sequence and the final scene of the 1938 film rather than the ending for Shaw's original play. The montage showing Eliza's lessons was also expanded, combining both Lerner's and Shaw's dialogue. The artwork on the original playbill (and the sleeve of the cast recording) is by Al Hirschfeld, who drew the playwright Shaw as a heavenly puppetmaster pulling the strings on the Henry Higgins character, while Higgins in turn attempts to control Eliza Doolittle. The musical had its pre-Broadway tryout at New Haven's Shubert Theatre."
"outraged Shaw explicitly forbade it, having had a bad experience with the operetta ""The Chocolate Soldier"" (based on Shaw's ""Arms and the Man""). He was, though, the only man to convince George Bernard Shaw to adjust his scripts to the new medium of cinema, gaining concessions from Shaw that no other man could. Pascal even invented the line for ""Pygmalion"" (later utilised by Lerner and Loewe in the musical version, ""My Fair Lady"") ""The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"" and Shaw, by now publicly referring to Pascal as a genius, wrote the line into the script. In"
"In Britain, the cause of spelling reform was promoted from 1908 by the Simplified Spelling Society and attracted a number of prominent supporters. One of these was George Bernard Shaw (author of ""Pygmalion"") and much of his considerable will was left to the cause. Among members of the society, the conditions of his will gave rise to major disagreements, which hindered the development of a single new system. Between 1934 and 1975, the ""Chicago Tribune"", then Chicago's biggest newspaper, used a number of reformed spellings. Over a two-month spell in 1934, it introduced 80 respelled words, including ""tho, thru, thoro,"
"K. Chesterton, in Orthodoxy was inspired to ask: Who really should be considered mad? Hanwell Insane Asylum was mentioned in George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play ""Pygmalion"". Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins, after successfully telling strangers where they were born by their accent, was jokingly told he came from Hanwell Insane Asylum. Reverend H A Norris, (a former chaplain to the hospital) realized in the early 1980s that there were old records at hospital which were historically important and should join the others in the Greater London Council Records Library (now part of the National Archives). He feared these would be thrown"
"Yale professor of English, acted by Michael Gambon as Dr. Fredericks, in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by Matt Damon. Trumbull Stickney Joseph Trumbull Stickney (June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904) was an American classical scholar and poet. He was born in Geneva and spent much of his early life in Europe. He attended Harvard University from 1891, when he became editor of the ""Harvard Monthly"" and a member of Signet society, to 1895, when he graduated magna cum laude. He then studied for seven years in Paris, taking a doctorate at the Sorbonne. He wrote"
"Pygmalion (1937 film) The film takes place in Amsterdam. Elisa ""Lizzie"" Dolittle (Doeluttel) is a poor but cheeky flower seller from the lower class, with a flat Amsterdam accent. When Professor Higgins, a linguist and speech teacher, accidentally bumps into Lizzie, he is shocked by her voice and manner of articulation. He looks down on her and even says that she has no right to exist if she cannot talk like a decent young lady. The next day, Lizzie visits him at his house on the Prinsengracht, seeking diction lessons so that she can work as a saleswoman in a"
"and impersonation"" as ""the sign of Shaw's self-consciousness about the art of playwrighting"". All of the characters disguise their true identity. Even the waiter is really an eminent doctor, reduced to work as a waiter because his patients can no longer pay him. The Inca is both a deceiver and deceived, not only by Ermyntrude, but by his own vanity. The play satirises his narcissistic belief that he is an artist, especially in description of the jewellery he gives to Ermyntrude, in which the rim represents a ""telephone cable laid by his majesty across the Shipskeel canal"" and the pin"
"two minutes ago. THE BYSTANDER. So it has. Why didn't you say so before? and us losing our time listening to your silliness. [He walks off towards the Strand]. THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER. I can tell where you come from. You come from Anwell. Go back there. THE NOTE TAKER [helpfully] Hanwell. THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER [affecting great distinction of speech] Thenk you, teacher. Haw haw! So long [he touches his hat with mock respect and strolls off]. — ""Pygmalion"", George Bernard Shaw, 1912 A traveller describes his passage through the Lands of Dream: Hanwell is depicted in the opening story of"
"DOCTOR allowed for a deceptively intelligent response, that deceived many individuals when first using the program. Weizenbaum named his program ELIZA after Eliza Doolittle, a working-class character in George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"". According to Weizenbaum, ELIZA's ability to be ""incrementally improved"" by various users made it similar to Eliza Doolittle, since Eliza Doolittle was taught to speak with an upper-class accent in Shaw's play. However, unlike in Shaw's play, ELIZA is incapable of learning new patterns of speech or new words through interaction alone. Edits must be made directly to ELIZA’s active script in order to change the manner by"
"Pygmalion (1938 film) Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and three more nominations. The screenplay was later adapted into the 1956 theatrical musical ""My Fair Lady"", which in turn led to the 1964 film of the same name. The Hungarian producer Gabriel Pascal wished to create a set of films based on Shaw's works, beginning with ""Pygmalion"", and went to"
"wage an uphill struggle against audiences, as well as some critics, persistently demanding that his ""Pygmalion"" have a happy ending, i.e. that Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolitle would ultimately get married. To Shaw's great chagrin, [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree]] who presented the play in London's [[West End theatre|West End]] in 1914 had sweetened the ending and told Shaw: ""My ending makes money; you ought to be grateful. Your ending is damnable; you ought to be shot."" The irritated Shaw added a postscript essay, ""'What Happened Afterwards"", to the 1916 print edition, for inclusion with subsequent editions, in which he explained precisely"
"literature. Her assigned Open University professor Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) however, openly abuses alcohol and soon develops misgivings about Rita's ability to adapt to student culture. Bryant is a jaded university lecturer, who describes his occupational ability as ""appalling but good enough for his appalling students"". His passion for literature is reignited by Rita, whose technical ability for the subject is limited by her lack of education but whose enthusiasm Frank finds refreshing. To illustrate the rhyming principle of assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds, Dr. Bryant gives as an example the words 'swans' and 'stones' from W B Yeats's"
"""Fine Manners"" was reminiscent of George Bernard Shaw's play, ""Pygmalion"", writing ""The photoplay has been constructed with meticulous attention to the edicts of the movie school of conventionalities; true characterization, intrigue and subtlety are conspicuously absent. Still, the idea of introducing a chorus girl from a burlesque show and having her try valiantly to grasp the ways of a less demonstrative society, does bring to mind Shaw's cockney heroine."" They noted that writers underscore the differences between the societal ranks of the two protagonists by emphasizing Orchid's ignorance of social amenities and by her being assigned a common name. While"
"... Hence arose an urgent demand on the part of the managers of Vienna and Berlin that I should have my plays performed by them first."" The British production opened in April 1914, starring Sir Herbert Tree and Mrs Patrick Campbell as, respectively, a professor of phonetics and a cockney flower-girl. There had earlier been a romantic liaison between Shaw and Campbell that caused Charlotte Shaw considerable concern, but by the time of the London premiere it had ended. The play attracted capacity audiences until July, when Tree insisted on going on holiday, and the production closed. His co-star then"
"with the young Pascal's passion for art and cinema, had told him to pay him a visit when he was entirely penniless. Pascal was now exactly that. He then sought out Shaw, first by going to New York City hidden in the toilet of a train, then convincing a sea captain to give him a lift to England. Somehow he did convince Shaw to give him the rights to his plays, beginning with ""Pygmalion"" (1938), which was an enormous international hit, both critically and financially. Pascal tried to convince Shaw to let ""Pygmalion"" be turned into a musical, but the"
"poignantly, an unfinished letter to her was found on Gilbert's body after the accident. Gilbert Murray George Gilbert Aimé Murray, (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play ""Major Barbara"", and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play ""Fram"". Murray was born"
"in a small cottage on the site of Punker's Barn. The journalist George Augustus Henry Sala born in 1828, recalls growing up in Lisson Grove during the 1830s ""when the principle public buildings were pawnbrokers, and 'leaving shops', low public houses and beershops and cheap undertakers."" The fictional Eliza Doolittle was born and raised in Lisson Grove and had to pay ""four and six a week for a room that wasn't fit for a pig to live in"" before coming under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins. These characters from George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"" are best known to modern audiences"